Cooling

Introduction The ARCTIC NC is geared toward cooling any laptops between 12” and 19” with two 60mm fans that blow cool air down the bottom of the laptop. Unlike other plate-design coolers, heat can be dissipated from the sides of the laptop easily to achieve maximum cooling performance. With the custom fan speed turn, you can […]

Introduction: We have a sample from the house of Noctua today, the NH-C12P SE14. This cooler has been in Noctua’s line up for about two years now, and it has been updated several times during. The “SE14″ is the latest update from the original NH-C12P. This update is replacing the NF-P12 fan with the larger […]

One of my co-workers is a hardcore gamer and power user. Since we’ve met, he’s become more and more interested in the hardware aspect of computing, and recently asked me to help build him a new system.

Extreme gamers continue to seek high performing gaming notebooks to keep up with the more demanding requirements of new games. However, notebooks tend to have cooling that is almost insufficient for the high-end hardware that they contain. Even performance notebooks from well known companies can overheat, which can lead to unfavorable game lag and can […]

In part one, I showed the unboxing of the pot I received for testing. This is a very large, and well-designed evaporator mainly used for LN2 and LHe. I decided I’d just recreate the thread with part one and two so you guys can see it all in one place: I know some of you […]

In an effort to better serve the enthusiast community. TechREACTION is working on defining a long term methodology for testing various products. Our desire is to be consistent, accurate, and transparent with out methodologies….our CPU cooling testing methodology follows….

Introduction: The Scythe Rasetsu was officially released on July 19, 2010 which is exactly 6 months after the release of the Scythe Yasya. The Rasetsu CPU cooler has it’s roots from the Yasya CPU cooler and is an improved follow up design. Scythe implemented much of the same design and thermal characteristics and technologies in […]